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- Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- California, the department store state.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.
- Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
- Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
- Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
- When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The world is proof that God is a committee.
- Bob Stokes
- If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
- Soichiro Honda
- The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean that you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
- Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
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